Inspiration for the Little Horse
The Little White Horse: Dartmoor ponies and the Royal Arms of the UK
“Not far away there is a beautiful cove where the white horses from the sea come galloping in... One night I dreamed that one of them galloped inland and did not go back.”
🌿 Elizabeth Goudge in an interview, ‘West Country Magic,’ for The Horn Book Magazine, 1947, about her inspiration for writing The Little White Horse1
Devon’s inspirational ponies
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